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Ethereum fixes Glamsterdam a vulnerability preventing staking deposits from being mistakenly credited to builder accounts

PANews October 27 reports, citing CoinDesk, that Ethereum developers have fixed Glamsterdam a vulnerability in the upgrade that could allow operators to take the funds originally intended by staking services for new validators ETH. The fix changed the processing rules for validator deposits and was merged on Monday, while developers 1 had rejected the modification weeks earlier. Researcher avsetsin discovered that if an operator first registers as a builder with a specific public key and the staking service subsequently deposits ETH to launch a validator using the same key, the draft rules would credit both deposits to the builder. avsetsin said this was a conditional code finding, not a confirmed live exploit; existing checks can prevent the attack, and no losses have been reported. The new rules order pending deposits based on withdrawal credentials, keeping validator deposits attributable to validators.Glamsterdam has been running on the Sepolia testnet,...